Helping innovative tech companies

achieve their goals.
 

RESPONSIVE. PRACTICAL. cost-effective.

Shapiro Legal Counsel, PLLC ("SLC") works collaboratively with your technology company as a team member to help you achieve your business goals. Keeping your company's best interests in mind, SLC is responsive, business-minded and mindful of your budget.  

As a former in-house general counsel, Kathy Shapiro, founder of SLC, understands first hand the pressures of managing a company's many internal legal matters in a timely and cost-effective way.  

Excited by the transformative powers of new technology and innovative thinking, Kathy focuses on helping tech entrepreneurs and companies build a solid legal foundation for growth. Kathy can serve as your company's virtual general counsel or augment your in-house legal capabilities. As a generalist who can manage day-to-day legal issues, Kathy can assist your company with all in-house legal matters, including the following:

  • drafting, reviewing and negotiating a wide range of agreements including strategic arrangements, sales, marketing, data licensing, vendor, consulting and other arrangements

  • assisting your sales team in the preparation and negotiation of agreements to shorten the contract review cycle

  • creating practical, tailored form agreements, especially for novel situations

  • setting up a legal department infrastructure

  • counseling on business and legal issues arising from day-to-day operations.


some recent client projects include:

General Corporate

  • providing "Legal 101" training to a company's worldwide sales team to empower the sales people to negotiate certain terms on their own and shorten the sales cycle

  • creating SaaS form agreements for revenue-generating customers

  • creating form partner referral agreements

  • creating custom consulting and other agreements

  • updating tailored Terms of Service, Privacy Policies and other general customer-facing agreements

  • drafting form API license agreements

  • advising and assisting clients with a wide variety of contract negotiations